However, after killing a second criminal whilst the man was attempting to commit rape, Light Yagami was mentally disturbed by the murders. It first belonged to Sidoh, but Ryuk stole it and dropped it into the human world because 'he was bored.' After testing the Death Note for the first time by killing a criminal, Light was clearly scared. Light Yagami found this Death Note in the courtyard of his high school in Kyoto, Japan. 1.4 Jack Neylon's Death Note (Mello's Death Note)ĭeath Notes owned by Humans Edit Light Yagami's Death Note Edit.2.4 Jack Neylon's Death Note (Mello's Death Note)Edit.However, it is unknown how many killer notebooks exist in the Shinigami Realm, as well as how Death Notes are created (the King of Death, perhaps). One of the eyecatch rules of the Shinigami Realm states that only 6 Death Notes can exist in the human realm at any one time. The Death Note is regarded to by Near as the most deadly weapon ever used in the history of mankind. Ryuk is the first Rogue Shinigami that is shown in the manga, yet it is stated early in the series that there have been other Death Notes dropped in the human world before. Historically, humans have either killed other humans with the Death Note(s) or ended up burning and therefore destroying the Death Note for any number of reasons.

Rogue Shinigami are gods of death who drop extra Death Note(s) from the Shinigami Realm down to the human world in order to allow humans the use of their spare killer notebook(s). Shinigami normally use Death Notes to kill humans from the Shinigami Realm, thereby adding each human's remaining years of life to their own.

It is this premise which forms the central plotline in the series. The Death Note is a supernatural notebook which has the power to kill any human whose name is written into it.

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